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AN iceberg almost as big as London yesterday broke away from the Antarctic close to a key British research station.

It is the first time since the 1970s that such a giant area has come away from the Brunt Ice Shelf, home to the Halley base of the British Antarctic Survey.

Researchers left the area in 2017 because it was expected that the ice breakup, or “calving”, would occur.

The iceberg is nearly 490sqm in size and the line of rupture is 12 miles from the base.

Prof Adrian Luckman, from Swansea University, said: “Although the breaking off of large parts of Antarctic ice shelves is an entirely normal part of how they work, large calving events remain quite rare and exciting.”